When the trade city opened, Li Zhi was very busy for a few days, except for teasing the children in his spare time at night, most of the time was spent in the east and west cities.

At this time, a month has passed since Wenqi's full moon, and the time has come to the end of August, during which King Jiancheng has already made two trips to Luoyang City, and Li Zhi has not yet left to go.

In addition to Gain's business, he has to participate in three big weddings, Fuchen and Xia Shu, Tong Lao Liu and Yurong, Zuo San and Feng Xia.

There are also old Wu Tou and Aunt Yu Ling to be determined, and Lao Yu and Pang Sheng'er will return to Guangzhou next month to hold it.

Seeing the arrival of the hot summer, the business of the trade city is unexpectedly hot, gathering most of the northern cloth, brocade in the history of the first single category mall, which has attracted the special attention of domestic and foreign merchants, and the transaction volume has not cooled down due to the arrival of hot weather.

The second phase of the trade city will also be opened in the second half of the year, which is the joint efforts of the southern cloth merchants, in the original Tongshan, Tongji two square area area, and the trade city is only separated by a Qixia gate.

The second phase will be built, will cross the Qixiamen archway, and there will be a flyover on the second floor, which is unheard of at the time.

The open-air flyover covers the entire side of the trade city, and the length is half a mile, so that the traditional wooden connection can hardly withstand the huge pressure of passenger flow, so the iron girder project is undertaken by the cliff mountain iron foundry outside the city.

After perfect decoration, the upper and lower street shops have become sky-high, Li Zhi is very strong to take the nearly 200 shops under his own name, through the matter of King Green, in the issue of the trade city, no one dares to have a long time with him.

Li Zhi didn't intend to monopolize it, just Li Dan received a gift from twenty of the shops, don't think that the future emperor has no desire for this entry, just ask him to send someone to collect rent every month, and there will be a large amount of income, this stable source of wealth no one can ignore.

Taiping also got more than a dozen in his hands, and the rest was divided into three or two by each family close to him, and only two percent were left in the hands of Zhengqing Wenqitang, that is, less than fifty shops.

However, regardless of the area and location, it is a core location, and if it is successfully opened at the end of the year, there will be a fixed rent of nearly 10,000 units per month.

The reason why the business of the trade city is so prosperous is naturally due to the agricultural society, and it is destined to have such a status in food and clothing, because it is the most important thing not to let your people go hungry.

In those days, there were often changes of dynasties, and the fundamental reason was that the peasants were hungry and unclothed, and the only solution was to try to change the monarch.

It is in this context that no matter which dynasty, no matter who is the emperor, the output of grain and cloth is put first, so that agriculture has always been in the highest position.

In addition to this reason, it was also because of the productive forces at that time that no other industries could be developed, and only agriculture could achieve the role of stabilizing society.

Grain and cloth were the backbone of commerce at that time, and the former was undoubtedly controlled by the state, and it is only natural that the remaining cloth business was booming among the people.

Generally speaking, if there is 100 acres of land, according to the needs of the social economy, the land for growing grain will generally be about 70 acres.

The remaining 30 acres of land will be used to grow mulberry hemp, which is the raw material for making clothes.

These two crops naturally generate the most tax revenue, to what extent, at their peak, can account for 65% of the entire economy.

The monarch could not have paid too much attention to agriculture, and in those days, women did not have a high social status in the family, but in terms of economic contribution, their status was relatively high, because almost all the cloth was woven by them, and occupied the economy

Half of the country is also reasonable.

Especially in the later period, because of the relationship between money, the value of cloth continued to improve. Although the technology of making currency in the Tang Dynasty has been greatly improved, there has been no progress in the field of anti-counterfeiting.

For others, it is very easy to imitate, in this case, too many counterfeit coins will pour in, which will naturally cause the price to continue to rise.

Finally, because of the value of cloth, it is endowed with the attribute of currency, and the improvement of the status of cloth naturally improves the status of women.

This situation will continue for several decades, until the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the economic structure of the whole country will change significantly, and the proportion of agriculture in paying taxes to the imperial court has shrunk significantly, as high as 20 percentage points, and the reason behind it is because of the rapid rise of industry and commerce.

Because the complete connection of the Silk Road has given future dynasties a new direction of development, the value of the surplus grain and cloth in the past has been precipitated, and at this moment, because the demand from the new market is increasing, these once surplus things have become valuable commodities.

Therefore, the trade city will have a development expectation that will last for decades, so that it can be seen by relatively more savvy southerners.

Before similar trade cities bloomed everywhere in Datang, Chang'an City would become the most dynamic economic lifeline of the entire country overnight because of its existence.

That is, since its opening, many imperial court forces suddenly realized one thing, the trade city has unknowingly become the source of fifty percent of the Tang Dynasty's tax revenue, which shows that the tax in the first month has made many people suddenly see what the purpose of Li Zhi's decision to build it is.

Especially the Empress Wu, she was able to react at the first time, it turned out that the new word Chang'an City Special Economic Zone in the rumors really existed, and the reason why Li Zhi was in his hands seemed to be obvious at the moment.

At a certain moment, the future empress seemed to fall into a deep sense of powerlessness, because Li Zhi's influence at this time was already unshakable.

In fact, the so-called economic circle of Chang'an City is not a secret, and Empress Wu has not really taken it to heart, the reason is that she does not realize that the once economic, political, and cultural center has already reached a development bottleneck.

Once Luoyang New City gradually transferred government affairs to the past, there was no longer much development prospect there, so Empress Wu would only laugh at any economic circle.

Even a few days before the opening of the Trade City, few people thought that it would have much influence, but then the invisible radiation ability of the Trade City spread to the north in a few days, and everyone knew about it, which made all the people who were not optimistic drop their jaws.

Because of its appearance, merchants took cash to buy cloth, and gradually formed a certain scale, which directly brought income to those farmers, so that they had more money to buy.

At the same time, these merchants who buy cloth are actually driving a new trend, that is, encouraging these farmers to continue to increase production, and their needs and expectations are constantly increasing.

It doesn't take time to take more than half a month, and a benign atmosphere has been formed, and the business of Chang'an City has developed in this context.

In addition, Chang'an City was a gathering place for merchants from all over the world at that time, and with these foreigners who came to do business to actively join in, it can also be said to be one of the main reasons for its short supply.

At this time, the trade city has become the most concentrated place in the entire Tang Dynasty linen, wool, silk, Luo, brocade, yarn and other textiles and silk fabrics.

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that Chang'an City has become stunned by the business community overnight due to a large number of overseas trade orders.

The Zhengqing Wenqitang and the Zhuansun family, a traditional brocade weaving family, are the first garment merchants to settle in addition to cloth, the former has endless layers of trendy new design, and the latter holds the top in the world

Brocade weaving process.

The perfect combination of the two, because the Zhengqing Wenqitang brand has already been crowned with an exclusive royal custom logo, so it has quickly established an unparalleled leading position in the trade city.

As a result, this series of huge changes has made the term Chang'an City Special Economic Zone, which has gradually faded, once again become the main topic on the streets.

This kind of folk topic also entered the imperial court offices that had not yet moved to Luoyang, especially those surnamed Li, who suddenly realized the critical factors.

When a topic that was previously taboo became well-known because of the trade city, the Empress Wu, who was far away in Luoyang, was also in serious concern.

At this time, a certain hall in Cuiwei Palace almost gathered most of the heads of the martial forces.

Although it was severely suppressed by the emperor's family some time ago, with the gradual stabilization of the situation, there is no need to dodge and dodge the emergency meeting of such martial forces.

When they gathered, Gaozong's upper study was also summoned, a total of seven people, including the crown prince Li Xian, and Pei Yan, who came secretly.

Gao Zong said: "I'm afraid it's a little late for them to realize this, once Chang'an Trade City is operational, it is impossible to suppress it!" ”

Seeing his father looking at him, Li Xian replied:

"As Aya said, the people I sent have already received news that there are more than a dozen trucks sent to Luoyang every day, not counting the larger quantities of goods that are being transported by water. These waterway goods will be transported to Youzhou, Hangzhou, Yuhang and other places in Luoyang through the original Yongji Canal and Tongji Canal Ancient Road, and the number is amazing! ”

Pei Yan added:

According to them, at most one month, the merchants from the Northeast will come in large quantities, and a large part of them will come from the Heishui in the far north, and they will sell my Tang cloth to Siberia! So, Mr. Li's Trade City, this is just the beginning! ”

"In other words, what we have at present is only a corner of the north, and the larger number sold to the south and the west has not yet been known?" Gojong said.

Another person replied: "Your Majesty, the statistics of the other lines have been reported, and there will be at least a thousand horses on the southern line alone every day, and more of them are more exquisite silk fabrics. ”

"Silk?" Gaozong was surprised, "Hangzhou is the largest production area of silk fabrics, how can it be picked up in the north in turn?" ”

The man replied: "The Hangzhou generation is mainly to purchase high-end goods, and the most advanced brocade weaving technology is mastered in the Danwuba East Zhushan Sun family, and the first-class brocade currently circulating on the market can only be woven by their family!" ”

"First class? What is supplied to the palace? ”

"Back to the emperor, that is the imperial brocade, the market is not circulating, only for the royal family, the best brocade in the world, you can't buy it outside!"

Gaozong suddenly realized, "So, there are similar trade cities opened in other places, and they can't replace Chang'an City for a while?" ”

Seeing that his father was happy, Li Xian also dared to take the initiative to speak out:

"Aya, not only high-end brocade, Mr. Li's Zhengqing Wenqitang ready-to-wear style has been exported overseas, although the Western Regions, Europe and our Oriental dressing are different, but he still has a special style of design for people over there, and there is also a reason why it cannot be replaced!"

"Color satin, brocade yarn in fact, the largest demand for overseas markets is Tianzhu, at present, Zhengqing Wenqitang has the highest sales of the whole horse is Tianzhu merchants, but Mr. Li is not conservative, the relevant colors are taught out for free, Chang'an City's major families operate cloth workshops, garment workshops, and Zhengqing Wenqitang have close cooperation!"

For being summoned to the palace this time, Pei Yan did a lot of homework temporarily, and had communicated with Li Zhi before coming.

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